“Trump admin has no central strategy for election security and no one’s in charge”

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The Trump Administration’s 2017 National Security Strategy and 2018 National Defense Strategy: Implications for Southeast Asia

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Thoughts and Prayers for Trump’s Hollywood Star

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In an emotional and solemn ceremony the remains of dozens of presumed casualties from the Korean War were escorted by military honor guards onto US soil on Wednesday 65 years after an armistice ended the conflict and weeks after President Donald Trump received a commitment from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for their return

The annual State of the Climate Report compiled by more than 450 scientists from over 60 countries describes worsening climate conditions worldwide in 2017 the same year that US President Donald Trump pulled out of the landmark Paris climate deal

From arbitration to discrimination: 3 ways Trump’s Supreme Court pick could transform US labor law

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Sen Blumenthal Grills Trump Officials On Reunification Efforts

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There are sort of these weird connections to everything going on in the political sphere in our country which I think is interesting because when I was reporting the book out it was mostly before the election It was a time when Christopher Steele’s name didn’t mean anything But what I figured out over time is that this had nothing to do with sour grapes and the FBI agents who opened the case didn’t really care about losing the World Cup The theory was that the US investigation was started because the US lost to Qatar and Bill Clinton or Eric Holder or Barack Obama or somebody ordered up an investigation What happened was that the investigation began in July or August 2010 four or five months before the vote happened It starts because this FBI agent who’s a long-term Genovese crime squad guy gets a new squad ― the Eurasian Organized Crime Squad ― which is primarily focused on Russian stuff It’s a squad that’s squeezed of resources and not doing much because under Robert Mueller who was the FBI director at the time the FBI was not interested in traditional crime-fighting They were interested in what Mueller called transnational crime So this agent looked for cases that he thought would score points with Mueller And one of the cases they’re doing involves the Trump Tower It’s this illegal poker game and sports book that’s partially run out of the Trump Tower The main guy was a Russian mobster and the FBI agent had gone to London ― that’s how he met Steele ― to learn about this guy Steele told him what he knew and they parted amicably and the parting shot was “Listen if you have any other interesting leads in the future let me know” Steele had already been hired by the English bid for the 2018 World Cup at that point What Chris Steele starts seeing on behalf of the English bid is the Russians doing as it’s described in the book sort of strange and questionable stuff It looks funny and it’s setting off alarm bells for Steele So he calls the FBI agent back and says “You should look into what’s happening with the World Cup bid » … It’s tempting to look at this as a reflection of the general US writ large obsession with Russia which certainly exists but it’s also a different era This was 2009 2010 This was during the Russian reset It was Obama’s first two years in office He’s hugging Putin and talking about how they’re going to make things work Russia is playing nice-nice …That’s what I find interesting about this case is that what we see in Russia’s attempt to win the World Cup by any means is the first sort of sign of the Russia we now understand exists which is kind of a Machiavellian Russia that will do anything to get what it wants and doesn’t care how it does it It was like a dress rehearsal for that … It’s one of these things that looks like an accident but so much of world history depends on these accidents Chris Steele when he was still at MI-6 investigated the death of Alexander Litvinenko who was the Russian spy poisoned with polonium It was Steele who ran that investigation and determined that Putin probably ordered it And then Steele gets hired because of his expertise in Russia by the English bid and he becomes the canary in the coal mine saying “Uh oh guys it’s not going to be that easy and things are looking pretty grim for you” … I don’t know if that would have affected whether or not Chris Steele later gets hired by Fusion GPS to put together the Trump dossier But it’s certain that the relationship he built because of the FIFA case meant that the FBI took it more seriously … I think FIFA vice president Jérôme Valcke and others were recognizing this increasingly brazen attitude of the criminality within FIFA They had gone from an organization where people were getting bribes and doing dirty stuff but doing it very carefully behind closed doors And it was transitioning to one where the impunity was so rampant that people thought they could do anything And I think in his mind awarding the World Cup to Russia under very suspicious circumstances and also awarding it to Qatar which by any definition has no right to host this tournament it felt to him and others like a step too far I don’t think he had any advance knowledge that the US was poking around on it but he recognized that it was getting out of hand People were handing out cash bribes in practically broad daylight and as corrupt as these people were they didn’t tend to do that … The FIFA culture we know today didn’t start yesterday It started in 1974 when this guy gets elected and within a couple years the corruption starts And it starts with one bribe to Havelange or one idea that he should be bribed And it starts a whole culture and the people all sort of learn from that same model The dominoes fell over time It’s not a new model and things were getting more and more out of hand over time FIFA had been able to successfully bat these challenges down over the years There’s an attempted revolt in FIFA in 2001 or 2002 that Blatter completely shut down The general secretary of FIFA was accusing Blatter and other people of either being involved in corruption or permitting corruption and there’s a moment where it seems like the Executive Committee was going to turn against Blatter and vote him out and change everything But they all blinked and Blatter dispensed his own justice by getting rid of his No 2 and putting in people who were going to be loyal to him The effect of those things was more brazen behavior … It was an open secret I think it’s because soccer’s just too big and important in all these other countries I think other countries have just never been able to figure out how to deal with it The best you’d get was a few members of Parliament in England holding outraged press conferences or a few hearings but nothing ever came of it It’s just too much of a political hot potato because soccer elsewhere is so much more important than it is the US People are terrified of offending the FIFA gods There’s a story about how Andrew Jennings this British journalist wanted to broadcast a documentary detailing FIFA corruption just a week or so before the 2010 vote and when the British bid and the British government got a hold of it they tried really hard to stifle the press They begged the BBC not to air the documentary until after the vote because they were terrified of FIFA That’s reflective of the kind of attitudes that all these countries have … it reminds me of questions about Chuck Blazer Is he all bad or all good He’s a little bit of both The US women’s national team probably wouldn’t exist without him The Women’s World Cup probably wouldn’t either Major League Soccer got its first revenue-positive TV deal because of Chuck Blazer … At the same time he was a corrupt crook that stole a lot of money that could’ve gone to the game And so is he good or bad Probably more bad than good but he’s not all bad That applies to the Gold Cup The Gold Cup is a totally artificial thing that was made up ultimately as a money-making scheme for Blazer but in the end it’s probably benefited soccer in this country So it’s clearly not all bad … The money stolen from the sport isn’t just the bribes Let’s say I’m a sports marketing firm and I bribe you a million dollars to sign over a rights contract to me The first piece of it is that million dollars that could have gone to the sport But it’s also the opportunity cost: What would the value of those rights have been if it was taken to the free market instead of a bribe All that money is taken away from the sport And the second thing was traveling to South America and seeing the conditions of soccer for fans for kids and for women That was really eye-opening There are stadiums in Argentina and Brazil that are absolutely decrepit And people would explain the money that was supposed to come to these clubs never comes You have kids still playing with the proverbial ball made of rags and duct tape and little girls who can’t play because there are no facilities or leagues for women at all When you see that and then you see dudes making millions in bribes and also marketing guys making far more from paying the bribes I started to get indignant about it FIFA always ties itself to children and the good of the game But it’s absurd when you see how they operate The money doesn’t go to kids It goes to making soccer officials rich … When massive amounts of money mixes with a massively popular cultural phenomenon is it ever going to be clean I wish it would be different but it seems kind of hopeless How do you regulate soccer and who can oversee this to make sure that people behave in an ethical clean and fair way that benefits everyone else It’s not an accident that every single international sports organization is based in Switzerland The answer is because the Swiss not only do they offer them a huge tax break they also basically say “You can do whatever you want and we’re not going to bother you” That’s exactly what these groups want Well how do you regulate that I don’t think the US went in saying “We’re going to regulate soccer” I think they thought if we can give soccer a huge kick in the ass if we can create so much public and political pressure on them that sponsors will run away they’ll feel they have no option but to react and clean up their act It’s sort of kick ’em where it hurts … But also the annoying but true reality of FIFA is that when the World Cup is happening all the soccer fans around the world forget all their anger and just want to watch the tournament For three and a half years everyone bitches about what a mess FIFA is and then during the World Cup everyone just wants to watch soccer There could be some reinvigoration in the next few months when the next stupid scandal appears And I do think Qatar could reinvigorate more of that There’s a tiny piece of me that thinks we could still see Qatar stripped of the World Cup That would certainly spur a lot of conversation about this Ken Bensinger

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Τhe structural fundamental factors pushing Western Capitalism into producing Totalitarianism and War The role of Trump and the Neocons first of three articles

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The Trump administration finds yet another way to attack Obamacare

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Something’s better than nothing following Trump-Putin meeting in Helsinki

Trump is not the representative figure of the fascist interpretations in today’s politics but the clear expression of them In this respect he is worthy to be praised He puts aside the political figures’ both verbal and corporal perpetual secrecies and pretenses and reveals and utters what indeed comes to his and the common politics’ mind While from France to Germany on the plea of the foolishness of its currently most important jobbers’ –Muslim terrorists– the West is contemplating othering policies and restrictive laws in the form of various programs and procedures Trump removes the distance between action and the expression of The dominant –a product of modern politics– and evokes Kings in the medieval era: where the king would publicly issue the decapitation decree

Kimmel Introduces New Board Game That Mocks Trump’s Spelling: ‘SCRABULL’

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Free Trade Win: EU Agrees to Work With Trump to Lower Tariffs

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Trump says looking forward to seeing Kim Jong Un soon

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Liberal Nazi Hysteria Is Helping Trump Bigly

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Actors Kevin Spacey House of Cards and Irwin “The Fonz” Winkler have stars closest to The Donald’s but their stars were untouched by the vandals All other nearby stars were also left alone Only Trump’s star was hit

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Trump vs the New York Times: The truth about media bias and the liberal press

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Quality Press: Challenges beyond Trump

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Team Trump’s Explanations for Mueller Tirade Make Less and Less Sense

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Xi hosts Trump with iconic Chinese culture

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Child Immigration Facility That Melania Trump Visited Has Been Accused Of Molesting A 14-Year-Old Girl

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Breaking: Ivanka Trump Shuts Down Clothing Line After Boycott Abandons Business

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QAnon’s Rise A Sign ‘Trumpism’ May Primarily Not Be About Trump At All

Amid the hubbub of Trump’s catastrophic NATO meeting and humiliating summit with Vladimir Putin the indictment of 12 Russian intel officers for the state-sponsored cyber-attack on the US was mostly overlooked The details found in that indictment reveal the scope and precision of the Mueller investigation Don’t Think About This Anymore Again

Trump Threatens to Place Sanctions on Turkey If American Pastor Not Released

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Is the Trump administration out to wreck the liberal world order No insisted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in an interview at his office in Foggy Bottom last week: The administration’s aim is to align that world order with 21st-century realities Many of the economic and diplomatic structures Mr Trump stands accused of undermining Mr Pompeo argues were developed in the aftermath of World War II Back then he tells me they “made sense for America” But in the post-Cold War era amid a resurgence of geopolitical competition “I think President Trump has properly identified a need for a reset” Mr Trump is suspicious of global institutions and alliances many of which he believes are no longer paying dividends for the US “When I watch President Trump give guidance to our team” Mr Pompeo says “his question is always ‘How does that structure impact America’ ” The president isn’t interested in how a given rule “may have impacted America in the ’60s or the ’80s or even the early 2000s” but rather how it will enhance American power “in 2018 and beyond” Mr Trump’s critics have charged that his “America First” strategy reflects a retreat from global leadership “I see it fundamentally differently” Mr Pompeo says He believes Mr Trump “recognizes the importance of American leadership” but also of “American sovereignty” That means Mr Trump is “prepared to be disruptive” when the US finds itself constrained by “arrangements that put America and American workers at a disadvantage” Mr Pompeo sees his task as trying to reform rules “that no longer are fair and equitable” while maintaining “the important historical relationships with Europe and the countries in Asia that are truly our partners” The US relationship with Germany has come under particular strain Mr Pompeo cites two reasons “It is important that they demonstrate a commitment to securing their own people” he says in reference to Germany’s low defense spending “When they do so we’re prepared to do the right thing and support them” And then there’s trade The Germans he says need to “create tariff systems and nontariff-barrier systems that are equitable reciprocal” But Mr Pompeo does not see the US-German rift as a permanent reorientation of US foreign policy Once the defense and trade issues are addressed “I’m very confident that the relationship will go from these irritants we see today to being as strong as it ever was” … In addition to renegotiating relationships with existing allies the Trump administration is facing newly assertive great-power adversaries “For a decade plus” Mr Pompeo says US foreign policy was “very focused on counterrorism and much less on big power struggles” Today while counterterrorism remains a priority geopolitics is increasingly defined by conflicts with powerful states like China and Russia Mr Pompeo says the US must be assertive but flexible in dealing with both Beijing and Moscow He wants the US relationship with China to be defined by rule-writing and rule-enforcing not anarchic struggle China he says hasn’t honored “the normal set of trade understandings where these nation states would trade with each other on fair and reciprocal terms they just simply haven’t done it They’ve engaged in intellectual property theft predatory economic practices” Avoiding a more serious confrontation with China down the line will require both countries to appreciate one another’s long-term interests The US can’t simply focus on “a tariff issue today or a particular island China has decided to militarize” tomorrow Rather the objective must be to create a rules-based structure to avoid a situation in which “zero-sum is the endgame for the two countries” Mr Pompeo also sees room for limited cooperation with Russia even as the US confronts its revisionism “There are many things about which we disagree Our value sets are incredibly different but there are also pockets where we find overlap” he says “That’s the challenge for a secretary of state—to identify those places where you can work together while protecting America against the worst pieces of those governments’ activities” … And the president’s agenda as Mr Pompeo communicates it is one of extraordinary ambition: to rewrite the rules of world order in America’s favor while working out stable relationships with geopolitical rivals Those goals may prove elusive Inertia is a powerful force in international relations and institutions and pre-existing agreements are often hard to reform Among other obstacles the Trump agenda creates the risk of a global coalition forming against American demands American efforts to negotiate more favorable trading arrangements could lead China Europe and Japan to work jointly against the US That danger is exacerbated by Mr Trump’s penchant for dramatic gestures and his volatile personal style Yet the US remains by far the world’s most powerful nation and many countries will be looking for ways to accommodate the administration at least partially Mr Trump is right that the international rules and institutions developed during the Cold War era must be retooled to withstand new political economic and military pressures Mr Pompeo believes that Mr Trump’s instincts preferences and beliefs constitute a coherent worldview … The world will soon see whether the president’s tweets of iron can be smoothly sheathed in a diplomatic glove Walter Russell Mead

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US-Präsident Trump streicht Mittel für Frauengesundheit

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La NBA boicoetea a Donald Trump

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Weather traffic woes could cause problems for Trump visit

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PELANTIKAN TERMAHAL DONALD TRUMP

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Someone Painted A Picture Of Trump And His Administration Literally ‘Crossing The Swamp’—And It’s A Masterpiece 🔥

This week as President Trump comes out in support of a bill that seeks to halve legal immigration to the United States his administration is emphasizing the idea that Americans and their jobs need to be protected from all newcomers—undocumented and documented To support that idea his senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has turned to a moment in American history that is often referenced by those who support curbing immigration: the Mariel boatlift of 1980 But in fact much of the conventional wisdom about that episode is based on falsehoods rooted in Cold War rhetoric During a press briefing on Wednesday journalist Glenn Thrush asked Miller to provide statistics showing the correlation between the presence of low-skill immigrants and decreased wages for US-born and naturalized workers In response Miller noted the findings of a recent study by Harvard economist George Borjas on the Mariel boatlift which contentiously argued that the influx of over 125000 Cubans who entered the United States from April to October of 1980 decreased wages for southern Florida’s less educated workers Borjas’ study which challenged an earlier influential study by Berkeley economist David Card has received major criticisms A lively debate persists among economists about the study’s methods limited sample size and interpretation of the region’s racial categories—but Miller’s conjuring of Mariel is contentious on its own merits The Mariel boatlift is an outlier in the pages of US immigration history because it was at its core a result of Cold War posturing between the United States and Cuba Fidel Castro found himself in a precarious situation in April 1980 when thousands of Cubans stormed the Peruvian embassy seeking asylum Castro opened up the port of Mariel and claimed he would let anyone who wanted to leave Cuba to do so Across the Florida Straits the United States especially prioritized receiving people who fled communist regimes as a Cold War imperative Because the newly minted Refugee Act had just been enacted—largely to address the longstanding bias that favored people fleeing communism—the Marielitos were admitted under an ambiguous emergency-based designation: “Cuban-Haitian entrant status pending” … In order to save face Castro put forward the narrative that the Cubans who sought to leave the island were the dregs of society and counter-revolutionaries who needed to be purged because they could never prove productive to the nation This sentiment along with reports that he had opened his jails and mental institutes as part of this boatlift fueled a mythology that the Marielitos were a criminal violent sexually deviant and altogether “undesirable” demographic In reality more than 80 of the Marielitos had no criminal past even in a nation where “criminality” could include acts antithetical to the revolutionary government’s ideals In addition to roughly 1500 mentally and physically disabled people this wave of Cubans included a significant number of sex workers and queer and transgender people—some of whom were part of the minority who had criminal-justice involvement having been formerly incarcerated because of their gender and sexual transgression Part of what made Castro’s propaganda scheme so successful was that his regime’s repudiation of Marielitos found an eager audience in the United States among those who found it useful to fuel the nativist furnace US legislators policymakers and many in the general public accepted Castro’s negative depiction of the Marielitos as truth By 1983 the film Scarface had even fictionalized a Marielito as a druglord and violent criminal Then and now the boatlift proved incredibly unpopular among those living in the United States and is often cited as one of the most vivid examples of the dangers of lax immigration enforcement In fact many of President Jimmy Carter’s opponents listed Mariel as one of his and the Democratic Party’s greatest failures even as his Republican successor President Ronald Reagan also embraced the Marielitos as part of an ideological campaign against Cuba Julio Capó Jr

The List/UK/30 Days Project Perhaps songwriters need to look beyond claiming one side of a binary to preach to the converted From the 30 Songs project ‘The Greatest Conversation in the History of the Universe’ by Jesu and Sun Kil Moon remains stunningly transcendent a twinkling electro-acoustic ballad which pays raw tribute to everything Mark Kozelek loves about America Lou Reed Laurie Anderson Muhammad Ali the raw multiculturalism of New York ‘If you don’t like this song or what I have to say’ he notes in language Trump might appreciate ‘then fuck off and listen to bye bye Miss American Pie’ His conclusion with a ring of truth we should all acknowledge embraces turbulent reality over self-affirming comfort: ‘if you think you took no part in Trump’s place in this world then you’re fired / because you’ve not been paying attention and your apprenticeship expired —David Pollock

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Milestone for Trump: 1 million new jobs in six months

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3Everything That Led to the Demise of Ivanka Trump’s Brand

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The need for new LNG terminals in Europe said one analyst ‘is like most of Trump’s trade policy—illusory’

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Akute Gefahr für Trump: US-Gesundheitssystem droht Kollaps

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Trump’s Tariff Plan Leaves Blue-Collar Winners and Losers

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The Day Ahead For August 2nd: Will President Trump Raises Tariffs Again Elon Musk Apologizes

Cantwell Introduces Bill to Codify Existing Protections for Millions of Acres of National Forests Currently Being Eyed by the Trump America statement on Andrew Wheeler’s initial appearance as interim chief of the Environmental Protection Agency

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President Trump’s words carry no weight

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Trump says it is time for America to bind the wounds of division and come together

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Fox News Live HD – President Trump Latest News

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Man Who Tried To Get Trump’s Tax Data Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison

Of course President Trump is a highly controversial figure who draws passionate opinions from all sides of the political scale As I live streamed the damaged star with commentary on Periscope crowds of tourists that gathered either condemned the vandalism or laughed heartily about it One woman even said she would “desecrate” it herself if she thought she could get away with it

70 Members of Congress Call On Trump Admin to Address Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza

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These days President Donald Trump’s star has been needing some extra loving care as it has in recent months and days become the target of vandals – Trump supporters refer to them of “libtards” “‘losers” “haters” and worse – still angry over Hillary Clinton’s loss to The Donald

Trump signs bills that helps Veterans and Police officers by giving them Priority and Training

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Much has been written — some of it either inaccurate or designed to obfuscate the issue ahead of the midterms for political purposes — about the border fiasco and the unfortunate separation of children from parents … The media outrage usually does not include examination of why the Trump administration is enforcing existing laws that it inherited from the Bush and Obama administrations that at any time could have been changed by both Democratic and Republican majorities in Congress of the use of often dubious asylum claims as a way of obtaining entry otherwise denied to those without legal authorization — a gambit that injures or at least hampers thousands with legitimate claims of political persecution of the seeming unconcern for the safety of children by some would-be asylum seekers who illegally cross the border rather than first applying legally at a US consulate abroad of the fact that many children are deliberately sent ahead unescorted on such dangerous treks to help facilitate their own parents’ later entrance of the cynicism of the cartels that urge and facilitate such mass rushes to the border to overwhelm general enforcement and of the selective outrage of the media in 2018 in a fashion not known under similar policies and detentions of the past In 2014 during a similar rush both Barack Obama “Do not send your children to the borders If they do make it they’ll get sent back” and Hillary Clinton “We have to send a clear message just because your child gets across the border that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay So we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey” warned — again to current media silence — would-be asylum seekers not to use children as levers to enter the US … Mexico is the recipient of about 30 billion in annual remittances aside from perhaps more than 20 billion annually sent to Central America from mostly illegal aliens within the US It is the beneficiary of an annual 71 billion trade surplus with the US And it is mostly culpable for once again using illegal immigration and the lives of its own citizens — and allowing Central Americans unfettered transit through its country — as cynical tools of domestic and foreign policy Illegal immigration increasingly of mostly indigenous peoples ensures an often racist Mexico City a steady stream of remittances now its greatest source of foreign exchange without much worry about how its indigent abroad can scrimp to send such massive sums back to Mexico Facilitating illegal immigration also establishes and fosters a favorable expatriate demographic inside the US that helps to recalibrate US policy favorably toward Mexico And Mexico City also uses immigration as a policy irritant to the US that can be magnified or lessened depending on Mexico’s own particular foreign-policy goals and moods at any given time All of the above call into question whether Mexico is a NAFTA ally a neutral or a belligerent a status that may become perhaps clearer during its upcoming presidential elections So far it assumes that the optics of this human tragedy facilitate its own political agendas but it may be just as likely that its cynicism could fuel renewed calls for a wall and reexamination of the entire Mexican–US relationship and indeed NAFTA Victor Davis Hanson

Trump Gives His Salary To Repair US Military Cemeteries – Mainstream Media Gave This No Claim That Child Is Dead In ICE Detention Center Due To ‘Negligent Care’ – ICE Immediately Responds To These Rumors!

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General secretary Eddy Alemán writes letter to President Trump

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Modi-Trump Meet: No Thrills No Frills No Spills

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Elon Musk Combines the Social Media Maturity of Donald Trump With the Business Ethics of Elizabeth Holmes

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EMERGENCY! Act Now to Prevent a Trump Attack on Syria! Phone the White House and Congress Now!

Trump succeeds where Obama failed – spawning a new wave of liberal activism

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Trump is assailing the truth in two distinct ways

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Police: Man wanted for allegedly threatening Trump may have stolen school van

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Trump’s support for Troy Balderson is turning off Republican women

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The Guardian: Diverse and grassroots the Trump marches were how protest should look

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Breaking: A Congressional Candidate May Have Just Committed Political I know you are here illegally”: Tucker Slams Lawyer Who Claims To Be American With Constitutional Rights Pastor: Trump is the Most Pro-Black President Not Obama… This is Why Muslim Man’s ‘Not So Happy’ refuses to be on same ball field as Republicans this year

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Trump más cerca de Putin que de servicios de inteligencia de EE UU

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Trump grozi zawieszeniem rządu

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· Trump’s EPA formally launches rollback of fuel economy standards

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Separating families at the border should prompt Trump’s impeachment

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Scott Peters Calls on Congress to Censure President Trump After Trump-Putin Meeting in Helsinki Gallery

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Editorial: Trump attacks are dangerous

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46mins Mueller offers Trump team new proposal for interview

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White House: Trump tweet about Russia probe just an opinion

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AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka Discusses President Donald Trump’s First year in office

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Donald Trump has slammed the Koch brothers and their powerful political operation

You can prove that some tweets from movieGeorge are fake and you do not need to make them up yes I just object to your usage of the words obviously fake when talking about this guy This is the type of guy who could unironically compare war immigrant to goombas and Trump to princess Peach or vice versa in a massive twitter thread

Can Oprah Defeat Trump in 2020 with Tom Hanks as Her Running Mate – JS

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In the Video – As reported by the UK Guardian: Trump refused to back US intelligence agencies on their findings on Russian interference in the US presidential election Trump declared the US and Russia’s relationship to be strong while Putin dodged questions on rumored compromising material he held on Trump and gave him a commemorative football Trump condemned as treasonous after press conference with Putin Most papers saw the Summit as a win for Putin: Trump portrayed as a “traitor” and “Putin’s poodle”The full text of the transcript is here

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Jonathan Chait Is the Last Person We Should Listen To When It Comes to Trump and Russia

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President Trump Speaks on Workforce Development and Participates in the Signing

February 2018: For many of my clients and potential clients the new Trump Tax Bill has created a lot of confusion While there are some reasons to form a new business entity right now it is also wise to seek advice from an accountant For more information see “Why Form an LLC”

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BREAKING: The Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore was definitely “historic” Will it also prove successful Here are 7 things you need to know

Mr Trump’s anger at America’s allies embodies however unpleasantly a not unreasonable point of view and one that the rest of the world ignores at its peril: The global world order is unbalanced and inequitable And unless something is done to correct it soon it will collapse with or without the president’s tweets While the West happily built the liberal order over the past 70 years with Europe at its center the Americans had the continent’s back In turn as it unravels America feels this loss of balance the hardest — it has always spent the most money and manpower to keep the system working The Europeans have basically been free riders on the voyage spending almost nothing on defense and instead building vast social welfare systems at home and robust well-protected export industries abroad Rather than lash back at Mr Trump they would do better to ask how we got to this place and how to get out The European Union as an institution is one of the prime drivers of this inequity At the Group of 7 for example the constituent countries are described as all equals But in reality the union puts a thumb on the scales in its members’ favor: It is a highly integrated well-protected free-trade area that gives a huge leg up to say German car manufacturers while essentially punishing American companies who want to trade in the region The eurozone offers a similar unfair advantage If it were not for the euro Germany would long ago have had to appreciate its currency in line with its enormous export surplus … how can the very same politicians and journalists who defended the euro bailout payments during the financial crisis arguing that Germany profited disproportionately from the common currency now go berserk when Mr Trump makes exactly this point German manufacturers also have the advantage of operating in a common market with huge wage gaps Bulgaria one of the poorest member states has a per capita gross domestic product roughly equal to that of Gabon while even in Slovakia Poland and Hungary — three relative success stories among the recent entrants to the union — that same measure is still roughly a third of what it is in Germany Under the European Union German manufacturers can assemble their cars in low-wage countries and export them without worrying about tariffs or other trade barriers If your plant sits in Detroit you might find the president’s anger over this fact persuasive Mr Trump is not the first president to complain about the unfair burden sharing within NATO He’s merely the first president not just to talk tough but to get tough … All those German politicians who oppose raising military spending from a meager 13 percent of gross domestic product should try to explain to American students why their European peers enjoy free universities and health care while they leave it up to others to cover for the West’s military infrastructure … When the door was opened in 2001 many in the West believed that a growing Chinese middle class enriched by and engaged with the world economy would eventually claim voice and suffrage thereby democratizing China The opposite has happened China which has grown wealthy in part by stealing intellectual property from the West is turning into an online-era dictatorship while still denying reciprocity in investment and trade relations … China’s unchecked abuse of the global free-trade regime makes a mockery of the very idea that the world can operate according to a rules-based order Again while many in the West have talked the talk about taking on China only Mr Trump has actually done something about it Jochen Bittner Die Zeit

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Tribute To Slain Biafrans During President Trump’s Inauguration Rally In Port Harcourt

I’ll begin by stating that I have full faith and support for America’s great intelligence agencies Always have And I have felt very strongly that while Russia’s actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election let me be totally clear in saying that — and I’ve said this many times — I accept our intelligence community’s conclusion that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election took place Could be other people also there’s a lot of people out there There was no collusion at all And people have seen that and they’ve seen that strongly The House has already come out very strongly on that A lot of people have come out strongly on that … Now … I got a transcript I reviewed it I actually went out and reviewed a clip of an answer that I gave and I realized that there is need for some clarification It should have been obvious — I thought it would be obvious — but I would like to clarify just in case it wasn’t In a key sentence in my remarks I said the word « would » instead of « wouldn’t » The sentence should have been: I don’t see any reason why I wouldn’t — or why it wouldn’t be Russia So just to repeat it I said the word « would » instead of « wouldn’t » And the sentence should have been — and I thought it would be maybe a little bit unclear on the transcript or unclear on the actual video — the sentence should have been: I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia Sort of a double negative … I have on numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings that Russians attempted to interfere in our elections Unlike previous administrations my administration has and will continue to move aggressively to repeal any efforts — and repel — we will stop it we will repel it — any efforts to interfere in our elections … As you know President Obama was given information just prior to the election — last election 2016 — and they decided not to do anything about it The reason they decided that was pretty obvious to all: They thought Hillary Clinton was going to win the election and they didn’t think it was a big deal When I won the election they thought it was a very big deal And all of the sudden they went into action but it was a little bit late So he was given that in sharp contrast to the way it should be And President Obama along with Brennan and Clapper and the whole group that you see on television now — probably getting paid a lot of money by your networks — they knew about Russia’s attempt to interfere in the election in September and they totally buried it And as I said they buried it because they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win … Yesterday we made significant progress toward addressing some of the worst conflicts on Earth So when I met with President Putin for about two and a half hours we talked about numerous things … President Putin and I addressed the range of issues starting with the civil war in Syria and the need for humanitarian aid and help for people in Syria We also spoke of Iran and the need to halt their nuclear ambitions and the destabilizing activities taking place in Iran As most of you know we ended the Iran deal which was one of the worst deals anyone could imagine And that’s had a major impact on Iran And it’s substantially weakened Iran And we hope that at some point Iran will call us and we’ll maybe make a new deal or we maybe won’t But Iran is not the same country that it was five months ago that I can tell you They’re no longer looking so much to the Mediterranean and the entire Middle East They’ve got some big problems that they can solve probably much easier if they deal with us … We discussed Israel and the security of Israel And President Putin is very much involved now with us in a discussion with Bibi Netanyahu on working something out with surrounding Syria and — Syria and specifically with regards to the security and long-term security of Israel A major topic of discussion was North Korea and the need for it to remove its nuclear weapons Russia has assured us of its support President Putin said he agrees with me 100 percent and they’ll do whatever they have to do to try and make it happen Donald Trump Today is about how we can strengthen America’s economy even more And we think the best place to start is with America’s middle-class families and our small businesses So today we’re here to talk to you about making permanent this tax relief — one so they can continue to grow two so we can add a million and a half new jobs and three we can protect them against a future Washington trying to steal back those hard-earned dollars that you and the Republican Congress has given themJ’ai relu le texte de mes déclarations et je me suis aperçu qu’il manquait une négation Je voulais dire: «Je ne vois pas de raison pour que la Russie ne l’ait pas fait» interférer dans l’élection NDLR Je pense que ceci clarifie la question J’ai une foi et une confiance entières en nos formidables agences de renseignement J’accepte leurs conclusions selon lesquelles des interventions de la Russie ont eu lieu Nous agirons avec force pour repousser et stopper toute nouvelle interférence dans nos élections Cette ingérence de Moscou «n’a eu aucun impact» sur le résultat du scrutin qu’il a remporté Donald Trump

​The body language in photos released from the meeting between the Russian president and Trump’s emissary John Bolton could not hide the sheer joy and indeed euphoria from Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

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Trump being Trump he is unable to separate a the way Russia’s perfidy has been exploited by his political opponents to attack him ie the unsuccessful attempt to delegitimize his presidency from b Russia’s perfidy itself as an attack on the United States No matter how angry this president may be at the Democrats and the media the significance to any president of Russia’s influence operation must be that it succeeded beyond Putin’s wildest dreams Whether you’re a Democrat invested in the narrative that Russia’s shenanigans cost Hillary Clinton the presidency or a Republican in denial that Putin sought to boost Trump at Clinton’s expense the reality is that Putin was undoubtedly trying to sow discord in our body politic That interpretation of events is something any president should be able to rally most of the country behind The provocation warrants a determined response that bleeds Putin the very opposite of kowtowing to the despot on the world stage Now let’s put to the side the recent cyber-espionage and other influence operations directed at our country It has been only four months since Putin’s regime attempted to murder former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the British city of Salisbury It has been only a few days since a British couple fell into a coma after exposure to the same Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok used on the Skripals The second incident happened just seven miles from the first strongly suggesting that Putin’s regime is guilty of depraved indifference to the dangers its targeted assassinations on Western soil — the territory of our closest ally — pose to innocent bystanders In 2006 the Putin regime similarly murdered a former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in London poisoning his tea with radioactive polonium Meanwhile reporting that is based mainly on the account of a former KGB agent who defected to the West and has been warned he is a target indicates that Putin’s operatives are working off a hit list of eight people including Sergei Skirpal who reside in the West Putin’s annexation of Crimea was just the most notorious of his recent adventures in territorial aggression He has effectively annexed the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the separatist war he is puppeteering in eastern Ukraine still rages in this its fifth year He is casting a menacing eye at the Baltics This even as Russia props up the monstrous Assad regime in Syria and allies with Iran the jihadist regime best known for sponsoring anti-American terrorism around the world And just five months ago at a major speech touting improved weapons capabilities Putin spiced up the demonstration with a video diagramming a hypothetical nuclear missile attack on yes Florida There is no doubt that we have to deal with this monster Realpolitik adherents may even be right that there is potential for cooperation with Russia in areas of mutual interest at least provided that the dealing is done with eyes open about Putin’s core anti-Americanism But there is no reason why we need to deal with Russia in a forum at which the US president stands there and pretends that a brutal autocrat who has become incalculably rich by looting his crumbling country is a statesman promoting peace and better relations I would say that no matter who was president In the case of President Trump specifically for all his “you’re fired” bravado and reports of mercurial outbursts at some subordinates he does not like unpleasant face-to-face confrontations He may unload at a rally but face to face the president’s mo is to defuse confrontation with unctuous banter — an easy solution for someone who seems not to believe that anything he says in the moment will bind him in the future This inevitably leads to foolish and sometimes reprehensible assertions eg saying in apparent defense of Putin “There are a lot of killers What You think our country’s so innocent” The president appears to subscribe to the Swamp school of thought that negotiations are good for their own sake — though he conflates what is good for him promoting his image as a master deal-maker with what is good for the country negotiations often aren’t This is another iteration of the president’s tendency to personalize things particularly relations between governments That trait puts him at a distinct disadvantage with someone like Putin who knows well the uses of flattery and grievance Andrew C McCarthy

We hear too much about Vladimir Putin these days and not nearly enough about the actual forces reshaping the world Yes the Russian president has proved a brilliant tactician And President Trump’s fantasies aside he is a ruthless enemy of American power and European coherence Yet Russia remains a byword for backwardness and corruption Its gross domestic product is less than 10 that of the US or the European Union With a declining population and a fundamentally adverse geopolitical situation the Russian Federation remains a shadow of its Soviet predecessor Add up the consequences of Mr Putin’s troops nukes disinformation campaigns financial aid to populist parties—and throw in the power of his authoritarian example Russia still does not have the ability to roll back the post-1990 democratic revolution overpower the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or dissolve the EU The West is in crisis because of European weakness not Russian strength Some of the Continent’s difficulties are well known France foolishly imagined the euro would contain the rise of a newly united Germany after the Cold War In fact it has propelled Germany’s unprecedented economic rise while driving a wedge between Europe’s indebted South and creditor North The Continent’s so-called migration policy is a humanitarian and a political disaster Berlin’s feckless approach to security has left Europe’s most important power a geopolitical midget lecturing sanctimoniously while others shape the world Meanwhile the EU’s Byzantine government machinery grinds at an ever slower pace creating openings for Mr Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Europe’s weakness invites authoritarian assertion in the borderlands Walter Russell Mead

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One thing came through loud and clear in President Trump’s press conference Wednesday with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker When they announced an alliance against third parties’ “unfair trading practices” they didn’t even have to mention China by name for listeners to know who their target was Cooperation between the US and EU will squeeze China’s protectionist model and even before this agreement there’s been evidence that China is already running up the white flag Yes China is acting tough in one sense quickly imposing tariffs in retaliation for those enacted by the Trump administration But while US stocks approach all-time highs and the dollar grows stronger Chinese stocks are in a bear market down 25 since January The yuan had its worst single month ever in June and is well on its way to a repeat this month Chinese corporate bonds have defaulted at a record rate in the past six months yet this week China unveiled a new stimulus program designed to encourage even more corporate borrowing … Weakening one’s currency is a standard weapon in trade wars and one that China has often been accused of using—including in a tweet by Mr Trump last week Devaluation would be even more dangerous in this case because of China’s power to dump the 14 trillion in US Treasury securities it holds But by denying its intention to plunge the yuan China has disarmed itself voluntarily This was no act of noble pacifism it had to be done Devaluing the currency would risk scaring investors away an existential threat to an emerging economy For China whose state-capitalism model has so far never produced a recession such capital flight might expose previously hidden economic weaknesses These weaknesses accumulate without the market discipline that occasional recessions impose The fragility of China’s economy can be seen in its growth rate which is slowing despite rising financial leverage and in its overinvestment in commodities and real estate The escalating trade war with the US could tip China into the unknown territory of recession—and then capital flight could push it into a financial crash and depression That would create mass joblessness in an economy that has never recorded unemployment higher than 43 With that scenario in mind the Chinese government must be wondering whether it has enough riot police The risk of capital flight is real The last time China let the yuan weaken—a slide that began in early 2014 and was punctuated in mid-2015 by the abandonment of the dollar peg in favor of a basket of currencies—the Chinese ended up losing almost 1 trillion in foreign reserves which they have yet to recover Now the sharp weakening of the yuan shows some degree of capital flight again is under way No wonder that despite tough talk from some quarters the PBOC disarmed itself voluntarily to avoid further capital flight The bank also is already offering to reimburse local firms for tariffs on imported US goods What’s more China has put out a yard sign for international investors by announcing unilateral easing of foreign-ownership restrictions in some industries China is beginning to realize that trade war isn’t really war It’s more like a drinking contest at a fraternity: the game is less inflicting harm on your opponent than inflicting it on yourself turn by turn In trade wars nations impose burdensome import tariffs on themselves in the hope that they’ll be able to stomach the pain longer than their competitor Why play such a game Because a carefully chosen act of self-harm can be an investment toward a worthy goal For example President Reagan’s arms race against the Soviet Union in the 1980s was in some sense a costly self-imposed tax But it turned out the US could bear the burden better than the Soviets could—Uncle Sam eventually out-drank the Russian bear and won the Cold War The US will win the trade war with China in the same way The PBOC’s statements show that the Chinese understand they are too vulnerable to take very many more drinks The only question is what they will be willing to offer Mr Trump to get him to take yes for an answer No wonder Beijing has ordered its state-influenced media to stop demonizing Mr Trump—officials are desperate to minimize the pain when President Xi Jinping has to cut the inevitable deal The drinking-contest metaphor takes us only so far The wonderful thing about reciprocal trade is that it is a positive-sum game in which all contestants are made better off If the conflict forces China to accept more foreign investors and goods comply with World Trade Organization rules and respect foreign intellectual property it may feel it has lost but will in fact be better off With this openness both economic and political China could spur a decadeslong second wave of growth that would bring hundreds of millions still living in rural poverty into glittering new cities It took Nixon to go to China and show it the way to the 20th century Now through the unlikely method of trade war Donald Trump is ushering China into the 21st century Donald Luskin

Let me go back because everybody in the media is so focused on this In 2014 in « The Washington times » Devin Nunes said with certainty that Russia would try to impact the 2016 elections Barack Obama in the month before the 2016 elections and I will read and I will quote « No serious person out there would suggest that somehow you can even rig America’s elections no evidence that it has happened in the past which is not true and number two or that it could happen in this election and I invite Mr Trump to stop whining and to go out there and try to get votes » He said that two weeks before the election Sean Hannity

As BuzzFeed investigative reporter Ken Bensinger chronicles in his new book Red Card: How the US Blew the Whistle on the World’s Biggest Sports Scandal the investigation’s origins began before FIFA handed the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 event to Qatar The case had actually begun as an FBI probe into an illegal gambling ring the bureau believed was run by people with ties to Russian organized crime outfits The ring operated out of Trump Tower in New York City Eventually the investigation spread to soccer thanks in part to an Internal Revenue Service agent named Steve Berryman a central figure in Bensinger’s book who pieced together the financial transactions that formed the backbone of the corruption allegations But first it was tips from British journalist Andrew Jennings and Christopher Steele ― the former British spy who is now known to American political observers as the man behind the infamous so-called “pee tape” dossier chronicling now-President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia ― that pointed the Americans’ attention toward the Russian World Cup and the decades of bribery and corruption that had transformed FIFA from a modest organization with a shoestring budget into a multibillion-dollar enterprise in charge of the world’s most popular sport Later the feds arrested and flipped Chuck Blazer a corrupt American soccer official and member of FIFA’s vaunted Executive Committee It was Blazer who helped them crack the case wide open as HuffPost’s Mary Papenfuss and co-author Teri Thompson chronicled in their book American Huckster based on the 2014 story they broke of Blazer’s role in the scandal Russia’s efforts to secure hosting rights to the 2018 World Cup never became a central part of the FBI and the US Department of Justice’s case Thanks to Blazer it instead focused primarily on CONCACAF which governs soccer in the Caribbean and North and Central America and other officials from South America But as Bensinger explained in an interview with HuffPost this week the FIFA case gave American law enforcement officials an early glimpse into the “Machiavellian Russia” of Vladimir Putin “that will do anything to get what it wants and doesn’t care how it does it” And it was Steele’s role in the earliest aspects of the FIFA case coincidentally that fostered the relationship that led him to hand his Trump dossier to the FBI ― the dossier that has now helped form “a big piece of the investigative blueprint” as Bensinger said that former FBI director Robert Mueller is using in his probe of Russian meddling in the election that made Trump president HuffPost

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Keep reading this blog and watching my youtube channel to see how President Trump will appear to ramble and act like a buffoon as some like to say all the while he is trolling the incompetent media while giving the true back story to us you and me the deplorables and all the new red pilled walkaway people the “American People” he has given the narrative back to us and he is giving the power of the national government back to us!

Donald Trump one of the GOP candidates for the upcoming presidential elections in the United Stated of America has received much attention due to his statements and his lead in the polls Things have arrived to a point where not only Trump’s opponent candidates but also his republican fellows are fed up with him From intellectuals to the Sheikhs of the Persian Gulf states everybody is complaining

Sommet d’Helsinki: Attention une faute peut en cacher une autre ! Leftist witch hunt: Guess who forced Trump into the impossible choice of kowtowing to Putin or to the delegitimization of his own election

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My Chinese interlocutors say that Mr Trump is the US first president for more than 40 years to bash China on three fronts simultaneously: trade military and ideology They describe him as a master tactician focusing on one issue at a time and extracting as many concessions as he can They speak of the skilful way Mr Trump has treated President Xi Jinping “Look at how he handled North Korea” one says “He got Xi Jinping to agree to UN sanctions half a dozen times creating an economic stranglehold on the country China almost turned North Korea into a sworn enemy of the country” But they also see him as a strategist willing to declare a truce in each area when there are no more concessions to be had and then start again with a new front For the Chinese even Mr Trump’s sycophantic press conference with Vladimir Putin the Russian president in Helsinki had a strategic purpose They see it as Henry Kissinger in reverse In 1972 the US nudged China off the Soviet axis in order to put pressure on its real rival the Soviet Union Today Mr Trump is reaching out to Russia in order to isolate China In the short term China is talking tough in response to Mr Trump’s trade assault At the same time they are trying to develop a multiplayer front against him by reaching out to the EU Japan and South Korea But many Chinese experts are quietly calling for a rethink of the longer-term strategy They want to prepare the ground for a new grand bargain with the US based on Chinese retrenchment Many feel that Mr Xi has over-reached and worry that it was a mistake simultaneously to antagonise the US economically and militarily in the South China Sea Instead they advocate economic concessions and a pullback from the aggressive tactics that have characterised China’s recent foreign policy Mark Leonard

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First of all he said there was no collusion whatsoever I guess he said he said as strongly as you can say it … I think it’s a shame we are talking about nuclear proliferation We’re talking about Syria and humanitarian aid we’re talking about all these different things and we get questions on the witch hunt And I don’t think the people out in the country buy it But the reporters like to give it a shot I thought that President Putin was very very strong … And at the end of this meeting I think we really came to a lot of good conclusions a really good conclusion for Israel Something very strong… in Syria we are getting very close I think it’s becoming a humanitarian situation and a lot of people are going to move back to Syria from Turkey and from Jordan and from different places they’re going to move back less so from Europe But they will be moving back from lots of different places So I really think we are not far apart on Syria I do think that on Iran he probably would have liked to keep the deal in place because that’s good for Russia You know they do business with — it’s good for a lot of the countries that do business with Iran but it’s not good for this country and it’s ultimately not good for the world And if you look at what is happening is falling apart they have rights in all their cities The inflation is rampant and going through the roof and not that you want to hurt anybody but that regime we will let the people know that we are behind them 100 percent But they are having big protests all over the country probably as big as they have ever had before And that all happens since I terminated that deal … And he also said he wants to be very helpful with North Korea We are doing well with North Korea We have time There is no rush You know it’s been going on for many years but we are doing very well As you know we got our hostages back There’s been no testing There’s been no nuclear explosion which we would have known about immediately There’s been no rockets going over Japan No missiles going over Japan And that’s now been nine months and the relationship is very good You saw the nice letter he wrote … I think it was great today but I think it was really bad five hours ago I think we really had a potential problem I think with two nuclear nations Ninety percent of the nuclear power in the world between these two nations and we’ve had a phony witch hunt deal drive us apart … You have to understand you take a look you look at all these people I mean some were hackers some of them Then again you know these are 14 people and they have 12 people These aren’t 12 people involve in the campaign Then you have many other people Some told a lie You look at Flynn it’s a shame But the FBI didn’t think he was lying With Paul Manafort who clearly is a nice man You look at what’s going on with him It’s like Al Capone Donald Trump

I was in primary school in my native Colombia when my father was murdered I was six – just one year older than my daughter is now My father was an officer in the Colombian army at a time when wearing a uniform made you a target for narcoterrorists Farc fighters and guerrilla groups What I remember clearly from those early years is the bombing and the terror I was so afraid especially after my dad died At night I would curl up in my mother’s bed while she held me close She could not promise me that everything was going to be all right because it wasn’t true I don’t want my daughter to grow up like that But when I turn on my TV I see terrorist attacks in San Bernardino and in Orlando There are dangerous people coming across our borders Trump was right Some are rapists and criminals but some are good people too But how do we know who is who when you come here illegally I moved to the US in 2006 on a work permit It took nearly five years and thousands of dollars to become a US citizen I know the process is not perfect but it’s the law Why would I want illegals coming in when I had to go through this It’s not fair that they’re allowed to jump the line and take advantage of so many benefits ones that I pay for with my tax dollars People assume that because I’m a woman I should vote for the woman or that because I’m Latina I should vote for the Democrat The Democrats have been pandering to minorities and women for the last 50 years They treat Latinos as if we’re all one big group I’m Colombian – I don’t like Mariachi music Donald Trump is not just saying what he thinks people want to hear he’s saying what they’re afraid to say I believe that he’s the only candidate who can make America strong and safe again Ximena Barreto 31 San Diego California

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President Donald Trump bluntly declared on Wednesday his attorney general should terminate right now the federal probe into the campaign that took him to the White House a newly fervent attack on the special counsel investigation that could imperil his presidency Trump also assailed the trial just underway of his former campaign chairman by the special counsel’s team

We are in dangerous times Amid the hysteria over the Russian summit the Mueller collusion probe nonstop unsupported allegations and rumors the Strzok and Page testimonies the ongoing congressional investigations into improper CIA and FBI behavior and a completely unhinged media there is a growing crisis of rising tensions between two superpowers that together possess a combined arsenal of 3000 instantly deployable nuclear weapons and another 10000 in storage That latter existential fact apparently has been forgotten in all the recriminations So it is time for all parties to deescalate and step back a bit Trump understandably wants to avoid progressive charges that he is obstructing Robert Mueller’s ostensible investigation of Russian collusion and he also wants some sort of détente with Russia Mueller has likely indicted Russians timed on the eve of the summit in part on the assumption that they would more or less not personally defend themselves and never appear on US soil Add that all up and Trump apparently has discussed with Putin an idea of allowing Mueller’s investigators to visit Russia to interview those they have indicted But in the quid pro quo world of big-power rivalry Putin of course wants reciprocity — the right also to interview American citizens or residents among them a former US ambassador to Russia whom he believes have transgressed against Russia Trump needs to squash Putin’s ridiculous “parity” request immediately Mueller would learn little or nothing from interviewing his targets on Russian soil — and likely never imagined that he would or could On the other hand given recent Russian attacks on critics abroad Moscow’s interviewing any Russian antagonist anywhere is not necessarily a safe or sane enterprise And being indicted under the laws of a constitutional republic is hardly synonymous with earning the suspicion of the Russian autocracy Most importantly the idea that a former US ambassador to Russia Professor Michael McFaul — long after the expiration of his government tenure — would submit to Russian questioning is absurd Of course it would also undermine the entire sanctity of American ambassadorial service So Putin’s offer to the extent we know the details of it will soon upon examination be seen as patently unhinged In refusal Trump has a good opportunity to remind the world why all American critics of the Putin government — and especially of his own government as well — are uniquely free and protected to voice any notion they wish Victor Davis Hanson

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NATO’s problems predated Trump and in many ways come back to Germany whose example most other NATO nations ultimately tend to follow The threat to both the EU and NATO is not Trump’s America but a country that is currently insisting on an artificially low euro for mercantile purposes and that is at odds with its southern Mediterranean partners over financial liabilities with its Eastern European neighbors over illegal immigration with the United Kingdom over the conditions of Brexit and with the US over a paltry investment in military readiness of 13 percent of GDP while it’s piling up the largest account surplus in the world at over 260 billion and a 65 billion trade surplus with the US Germany a majority of whose tanks and fighters are thought not to be battle-ready cannot expect an American-subsidized united NATO front against the threat of Vladimir Putin if it is now cutting a natural-gas agreement with Russia that undermines the Baltic States and Ukraine — countries that Putin is increasingly targeting The gas deal will not only empower Putin it will make Germany dependent on Russian energy — an untenable situation Merkel can package all that in mellifluous diplomatic-speak and Trump can rail about it in crude polemics but the facts remain facts and they are of Merkel’s making not Trump’s The same themes hold true regarding attitudes toward Putin who again predated Trump and his press conference in Helsinki where the president gave to the press an unfortunate performance reminiscent of past disastrous meetings with or assessments of Russian leaders by American presidents such as FDR on Stalin: “I just have a hunch that Stalin is not that kind of man Harry Hopkins says he’s not and that he doesn’t want anything but security for his country and I think if I give him everything I possibly can and ask for nothing in return noblesse oblige he won’t try to annex anything and will work with me for a world of democracy and peace” Or Kennedy’s blown summit with Khrushchev in Geneva: “He beat the hell out of me It was the worst thing in my life He savaged me” Or Reagan’s weird offer to share American SDI technology and research with Gorbachev or without much consultation with his advisers to eliminate all ballistic missiles at Reykjavik Trump confused trying to forge a realist détente with some sort of bizarre empathy for Putin whose actions have been hostile and bellicose to the US and based on perceptions of past American weakness But again Trump did not create an empowered Putin — and he has done more than any other president so far to check Putin’s ambitions Putin in 2016 continued longstanding Russian cyberattacks and election interference because of past impunity Obama belatedly told Putin to “cut it out” only in September 2016 He swallowed Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine after the famous Hillary-managed “reset” — a surreal Chamberlain-like policy in which we simultaneously appeased Putin in fact while in rhetoric lecturing him about his classroom cut-up antics and macho style Had Trump been overheard on a hot mic in Helsinki promising more flexibility with Putin on missile defense after our midterm elections in expectation for electorally advantageous election-cycle quid pro quo good behavior from the Russians we’d probably see articles of impeachment introduced on charges of Russian collusion And yet the comparison would be even worse than that After all America kept Obama’s 2011 promise “to Vladimir” in that we really did give up on creating credible missile defenses in Eastern Europe breaking pledges made by a previous administration — music to Vladimir Putin’s ears It would be preferable if Trump’s rhetoric reinforced his solid actions which in relation to Putin’s aggression consist of wisely keeping or increasing tough sanctions accelerating US oil production decimating Russian mercenaries in Syria and arming Ukrainian resistance But then again Trump has not quite told us that he has looked into Putin’s eyes and seen a straightforward and trustworthy soul Nor in desperation did he invite Putin into the Middle East after a Russian hiatus of nearly 40 years to prove to the world that Bashar al-Assad had eliminated his WMD trove — which Assad subsequently continued to use at his pleasure There is currently no scandal over uranium sales to Russia and the secretary of state’s spouse has not been discovered to have recently pocketed 500000 to speak in Moscow In a perfect world we would like to see carefully chosen words enhancing effective muscular action Instead in the immediate past we heard sober and judicious rhetoric ad nauseam coupled with abject appeasement and widely perceived dangerous weakness Now we have ill-timed bombast that sometimes mars positive achievement Neither is desirable But the latter is far preferable to the former Victor Davis Hanson

How did Trump luck out by getting such hopeless geebos for opponents It can’t just be chance At every turn these dummies choose to lock themselves into the most implausible and indefensible positions imaginable then push all their chips into the center of the table It’s almost supernatural – maybe Trump won the intervention of some ancient demon by heading over to the offices of the Weekly Standard and snatching away one of its Never Trump scribblers to use as a virgin sacrifice How did this guy win and in doing so crush the avatar of the establishment the smartest woman in the world Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit One of his secrets to success is really no secret at all It is to embrace the obvious Unlike our exhausted establishment Trump rarely holds to bizarre indefensible positions You would think that would be an instinctive thing for politicians of both parties – “I know! I’ll adopt stands on issues that won’t make my constituents ask ‘What the hell is wrong with you’” – but it isn’t Instead the establishment has somehow talked itself into taking positions that are so clearly ridiculous that Normals scratch their heads baffled at what they are being told by their betters via the lapdog liberal media Look at NATO The entire foreign policy establishment is scandalized that Trump says he expects the Europeans to cover their fair share of the NATO nut Now a normal American is going to think “Yeah I think they ought to pay their share of their own defense Sounds reasonable” But the establishment collectively wets itself – “HE’S DESTROYING THIS ESSENTIAL ALLIANCE BY ASKING THE PEOPLE BENEFITING FROM IT MOST TO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE IN IT!” And the Normals many of whom like me actually served in NATO wonder “Well if it’s so essential why aren’t the allies eager to pay for it” And the establishment responds “SHUT UP RUSSIAN STOOGE! ASKING THE ALLIES TO MAKE NATO MORE EFFECTIVE BY PAYING WHAT THEY PROMISED WHICH IS STILL A FRACTION OF WHAT THE US PAYS IS PLAYING RIGHT INTO PUTIN’S HANDS ALSO THE EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE SOMEHOW” Here’s a test Leave DC or New York drive a few hours out to America find a random guy on the street and ask “Hey don’t you think it’s awful that Trump wants our allies to increase their contributions to their own defense to just about half of what the US pays” You can safely assume he’ll respond “Wait why only half” The Normal/Elite disconnect was also in full effect regarding the new SCOTUS dude The establishment decided it’s going to bork Brett by pointing out that he bought baseball tickets and apparently liked beer in college like there’s not a significant portion of Americans who wouldn’t be thrilled to have their next justice be nicknamed “Kegmaster K” And what’s the new fussiness about alcohol or are they upset because he quaffs brewskis RUSSIANS! instead of guzzling chardonnay The Dems weren’t so picky about partying in 2016 when Stumbles McMyTurn was staggering all over the map Well not in Wisconsin Then the establishment attacked Brett’s family for looking like a normal family instead of a traveling freak show The Kavanaugh kids didn’t have nose rings or teen tatts and they presumably know which bathroom to use This to the establishment is unforgiveable To Normal Americans this constant social warfare against people who don’t want to be sketchy mutants is just more inspiration for more militancy The Democrats have also decided that they want to go into November on the platform of abolishing ICE and opening the borders to future Democrat voters from festering Third World hellholes Perhaps they didn’t read the polls but Normal Americans – the ones not appearing on CNN working for Soros-funded agitator collectives or in college squandering their dads’ money on degrees in Oppression Studies – actually like borders If Trump’s brain trust gathered together in his palatial Mar-a-Lago estate to concoct a scheme to get the Democrat Party to adopt the most tone-deaf possible platform they could not have drafted one better than what the Democrats have created for themselves The Dems ought to be required to report everything they have done lately to the Federal Elections Commission as an in-kind donation to the Republicans in 2018 And then there is the Mueller/ FBI/Collusion/Treason charade which has normal people asking “Is that still a thing” Yeah kind of though it becomes less thingy every day as it becomes obvious that Sad Bassett Hound Mueller and the Conflict-of-Interest Crew’s got no-thing The establishment is convinced that Peter Strzok came out of that hearing not looking like a guy who probably has a sex dungeon in his basement But he totally looked like he has a sex dungeon in his basement thereby launching a thousand memes of him leering smirking and generally channeling Paul Lynde One of the secrets of Trump’s success is having really really stupid enemies enemies who are so tone-deaf and out-of-touch that they simply cannot adopt commonsense positions that resonate among normal Americans The establishment instead insists on telling Americans that up is down black is white and girls can have penises Nope No wonder the Normals have gotten militant and no wonder a leader like Donald Trump came along with the vision to exploit the opening the establishment left for an outsider to rise and prevail by embracing the obvious Kurt Sclichter

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As thousands of asylum-seeking parents were separated from their children in recent months the Trump administration actively portrayed them as law breakers who must be prosecuted and punished for coming to the United States Left out of the narrative is one well-established fact: it is legal to seek asylum

We’ve seen deliberately placed Russian Fingerprints efforts to forge perceived association to WikiLeaks DNC breach claims discredited How Guccifer 20 Used Trump Opposition Research like an identity card the day after it was cited by CrowdStrike executives in a Washington Post article noted how he could only ever seem to hack the DNC lacked syntactical traits of a Russian speaking English and has been shown as most likely operating within US timezones based on email timestamps archive timestamps Twitter activity and WordPress activity

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In the one year since President Trump took office the first quarter of 2017 through the first quarter of 2018 real GDP grew at a 255 percent annual rate This is higher than the growth for six of the eight years former President Obama was in office or even five of the eight years when former President George W Bush was in office Moreover the economic growth rate in the first year of Trump in office is higher than the average annual growth rate for the entire presidencies of both Obama at 205 percent and Bush at 171 percent For the full 65 years from the first quarter of 1953 through the first quarter of 2018 annual real GDP growth in the United States averaged 295 percent which is still substantially higher than the first year under Trump The growth rate for the second quarter of 2018 is 41 percent This is a nice sign of American prosperity and is the strongest quarter of economic growth since the third quarter of 2014 Net exports contributed about 1 percent while the change in private inventories subtracted 1 percent Lots of changes like this happen on a quarter by quarter basis and should not be taken too seriously … While the GDP growth of any one quarter can be offset revised or magnified in subsequent quarters a pattern appears to be emerging under the stewardship of the Trump administration which makes a lot of sense at least to me … When it comes to trade there are problems and risks in the vision Trump is carrying out Trade should be free and with minimum barriers placed on American exports to other countries and foreign exports to the United States … Finally we have had a serious government spending problem in the United States for years The economist Milton Friedman was famous for saying “government spending is taxation” … The latest GDP figure is a great number that aids our recovery from the awful 16 years under Bush and Obama It will also reduce deficits in the long term if such robust economic growth continues But the challenge is far from over We have a lot of work to do to fan the flames of prosperity and to hold at bay the prosperity killers But one step forward is still one step forward and it is a heck of a lot better than one step backward Arthur B Laffer

The probe is a disaster for our country I think it’s kept us apart It’s kept us separated There was no collusion at all Everybody knows it People are being brought out to the fore so far that I know virtually none of it related to the campaign And they are going to have to try really hard to find somebody that did relate to the campaign It was a clean campaign … I do have a relationship with him And I think that he’s done a very brilliant and amazing job Really a lot of people would say he has put himself at the forefront of the world as a leader Donald Trump

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On Jan 29th 2018 an anon made a request of Q to add in the phrase “Tip Top” to the SOTU address the next day January 30 2018 Well as you can imagine this did not happen as this speech has normally has input from great writers that work with the President to make impact and set the tone and direction and is a very traditional and formal speech President Trump played his role very well and kept it very “Presidential” that night However this is not where the story ends lets fast forward to easter day Sunday April 1 2018

So much for “secular stagnation” You remember that notion made fashionable by economist Larry Summers and picked up by the press corps to explain why the US economy couldn’t rise above the 22 doldrums of the Obama years Well with Friday’s report of 41 growth in the second quarter the US economy has now averaged 31 growth for the last six months and 28 for the last 12 The lesson is that policies matter and so does the tone set by political leaders For eight years Barack Obama told Americans that inequality was a bigger problem than slow economic growth that stagnant wages were the fault of the rich and that government through regulation and politically directed credit could create prosperity The result was slow growth and secular stagnation was the intellectual attempt to explain that policy failure The policy mix changed with Donald Trump’s election and a Republican Congress to turn it into law Deregulation and tax reform were the first-year priorities that have liberated risk-taking and investment spurring a revival in business confidence and growth to give the long expansion a second wind … Deregulation signaled to business that arbitrary enforcement and compliance costs wouldn’t be imposed on ideological whim Tax reform broke the bottleneck on capital mobility and investment from the highest corporate tax rate in the developed world Above all the political message from Washington after eight years is that faster growth is possible and investment to turn a profit is encouraged … It would be nice to think that all Americans would take satisfaction in this growth But in the polarized politics of 2018 the same people who said this growth revival could never happen are now saying that it can’t last It’s a “sugar high” as Mr Summers has put it due to one-time boosts like government spending and consumption … There are risks to this outlook not least from Mr Trump’s tariff policies … The way to help the economy is for Mr Trump to build on this week’s trade truce with the European Union withdraw the tariffs on both sides and work toward a “zero tariff” deal Meantime wrap up the Nafta revision with Mexico and Canada within weeks so Congress can approve it this year Mr Trump could claim he had honored another campaign promise while removing a pall on investment WSJ

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This year there have been none of the usual Iranian provocations — frequent during the Obama administration — of harassing American ships in the Persian Gulf Apparently the Iranians now realize that anything they do to an American ship will be replied to with overwhelming force Ditto North Korea After lots of threats from Kim Jong-un about using his new ballistic missiles against the United States Trump warned that he would use America’s far greater arsenal to eliminate North Korea’s arsenal for good Trump is said to be undermining NATO by questioning its usefulness some 69 years after its founding Yet this is not 1948 and Germany is no longer down The United States is always in And Russia is hardly out but is instead cutting energy deals with the Europeans More significantly most NATO countries have failed to keep their promises to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense Yet the vast majority of the 29 alliance members are far closer than the US to the dangers of Middle East terrorism and supposed Russian bullying Why does Germany by design run up a 65 billion annual trade surplus with the United States Why does such a wealthy country spend only 12 percent of its GDP on defense And if Germany has entered into energy agreements with a supposedly dangerous Vladimir Putin why does it still need to have its security subsidized by the American military Trump approaches NAFTA in the same reductionist way The 24-year-old treaty was supposed to stabilize if not equalize all trade immigration and commerce between the three supposed North American allies It never quite happened that way Unequal tariffs remained Both Canada and Mexico have substantial trade surpluses with the US In Mexico’s case it enjoys a 71 billion surplus the largest of US trading partners with the exception of China Canada never honored its NATO security commitment It spends only 1 percent of its GDP on defense rightly assuming that the US will continue to underwrite its security During the lifetime of NAFTA Mexico has encouraged millions of its citizens to enter the US illegally Mexico’s selfish immigration policy is designed to avoid internal reform to earn some 30 billion in annual expatriate remittances and to influence US politics Yet after more than two decades of NAFTA Mexico is more unstable than ever Cartels run entire states Murders are at a record high Entire towns in southern Mexico have been denuded of their young males who crossed the US border illegally The US runs a huge trade deficit with China The red ink is predicated on Chinese dumping patent and copyright infringement and outright cheating Beijing illegally occupies neutral islands in the South China Sea militarizes them and bullies its neighbors All of the above has become the “normal” globalized world But in 2016 red-state America rebelled at the asymmetry The other half of the country demonized the red-staters as protectionists nativists isolationists populists and nationalists However if China Europe and other US trading partners had simply followed global trading rules there would have been no Trump pushback — and probably no Trump presidency at all Had NATO members and NAFTA partners just kept their commitments and had Mexico not encouraged millions of its citizens to crash the US border there would now be little tension between allies Instead what had become abnormal was branded the new normal of the post-war world Again a rich and powerful US was supposed to subsidize world trade take in more immigrants than all the nations of the world combined protect the West and ensure safe global communications travel and commerce After 70 years the effort had hollowed out the interior of America creating two separate nations of coastal winners and heartland losers Trump’s entire foreign policy can be summed up as a demand for symmetry from all partners and allies and tit-for-tat replies to would-be enemies Did Trump have to be so loud and often crude in his effort to bully America back to reciprocity Who knows But it seems impossible to imagine that globalist John McCain internationalist Barack Obama or gentlemanly Mitt Romney would ever have called Europe NATO Mexico and Canada to account or warned Iran or North Korea that tit would be met by tat Victor Davis Hanson

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FBI Agents Comey and Strzok — Two key players in the scheme to clear Clinton and frame Trump Bikers have been saying all along the Feds are corrupt

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Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed an online organization that develops digital firearms files was set to release the downloadable blueprints for several guns on August 1st 2018 The guns including AR-15 style-rifles can be created using a 3D printer sparking outrage amongst gun control groups Merely hours before the release a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the move with a restraining order But this debate raises several concerns connected to the case such as freedom of speech gun control including Parkland’s Everytown movement advancing technology and Trump’s involvement with the NRA

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Many on the left they want you to believe this alleged interference is shocking unprecedented turn of events but we all know that Russian election meddling is not new at all Now remember ahead of the 2016 presidential election cycle In 2014 the House Intel Committee chairman Devin Nunes he issued a very stern warning about Putin’s belligerent actions and attempts to denigrate the United States and by the way yes impact our 2016 election And we also know you can go way back to 2008 we know that Russia hacked into both the McCain campaign and even the presidential campaign of Barack Obama himself And despite this in 2016 when Hillary Clinton appeared to have a firm lead in the polls — oh just before the election it was President Obama who laughed off any notion that American elections could possibly be tampered with How wrong he was … That’s when he thought Hillary was going to win Now that Trump is president after nearly a decade of playing down Russian interference and its impact on our elections the left is in total freak out mode trying desperately to connect Russian hacking to the Trump presidency This is a total left-wing conspiracy a fantasy This is the witch hunt Every single report every investigation into our election shows absolutely no votes were changed none were altered in the 2016 election Not a single vote And by the way it’s important to point out every major country in the world engages in election interference As Senator Rand Paul put it we all do it and this includes the Clinton campaign In fact if you’re looking for Russian interference look no further than Hillary Clinton and the DNC in 2016 They actually paid oh yes through a law firm that they funnel money Fusion GPS Yes then they got a foreign entity foreign spy by the name of Christopher Steele he put together phony opposition research and now the infamous dossier which has been debunked filled with lies Russian lies Russian propaganda and all paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to manipulate you the American people in the lead up to the 2016 election Nobody in the media seems to care about Obama’s attempt at interference in the last Israeli election against our number one ally in the Middle East Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu And by all accounts today’s meeting always productive and very important As we all know there are a lot of serious issues between the US and Russia but predictably even before this meeting took place yes the destroy Trump hate Trump media they were already hoping and predicting failure You see success for Donald Trump is bad for their agenda especially in the lead up to the 2018 midterm elections … Former CIA director you know the guy that was a former communist turned CNN paid hack John Brennan he actually tweeted out: Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors It was nothing short of treasonous Not only were his comments imbecilic he is wholly in the pocket of Putin Republican patriots where are you John let’s address you for a second here What have you done on Obama’s watch to prevent Russian meddling What role did you play in all of this … As you can see it was all a predetermined outcome It didn’t matter what happened at today’s meeting Your mainstream media just blind hatred for President Trump and they long predetermined that anything the president does is terrible It’s devastating apocalyptic And at this point they are just a broken record … Look at the economy Look at the progress in North Korea And while the left always acts like the sky is literally falling because Donald Trump actually wants to discuss safety and security with nuclear weapons nuclear proliferation Syria Iran a lot of other important issues including interference By the way meeting with Putin is that bad we all know the truth US diplomacy is in good hands despite what they have told you The president has never been afraid to walk away from a bad deal never been afraid to call out foreign leaders and hold all of them accountable As we saw he was critical of the British government’s execution of Brexit And by the way he rightfully called out many of our allies in NATO Why They are not paying their fair share for their own national defense even criticizing the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her country’s lucrative energy deals Vladimir Putin’s Russia which creates a dangerous dependency on Russia and energy which is the lifeblood of their economy After all if the West is so worried about Russia well why would they be willing to give him billions and billions of dollars to make Russia rich again Instead the president is now rightly pushing Germany to kill its oil and gas deals with Russia and get their energy from us in that the United States which would also mean millions of high-paying career jobs for Americans Now this move would not only benefit the United States it would also absolutely wreck Russia’s economy Now Putin should be very concerned about that possibility as it would literally destroy Russia’s economy and probably destroy him politically … And now the president has been even more forceful with our enemies Look at North Korea little rocket man fire and fury Our button works yours doesn’t and it’s bigger Now despite what the media predicted there is real progress on the Korean peninsula because the president’s peace through strength strategy is working It always works Appeasement doesn’t work Bribing dictators doesn’t work Now there hasn’t been a single rocket fired in months American hostages thank God they have come home One nuclear site in fact has been dismantled and shuttered and the process continues to this day And this is something else that the mainstream media will never tell you President Trump has been incredibly tough on Russia This is something they won’t report under his administration the US issued sanctions against roughly 200 individuals and entities related to Russia Other stinging economic sanctions against Russia have also increased and US forces on the ground in Syria inflicted heavy casualties on even Russian soldiers during a skirmish earlier this year an enormous embarrassment for Vladimir Putin And the United States has been busy arming Ukraine with lethal weapon systems but the media they are not going to focus on any of this Instead it’s Russia Russia Russia collusion collusion collusion If they are not talking about Stormy it’s all the time It’s 24/7 Now with this is a backdrop the president moves forward with his very important diplomacy and as a leader of the free world President Trump he must meet with the leaders of Russia China North Korea and others … And specifically Russia must stop coordinating with the Iranian regime They must stop supporting President Assad in Syria And yes they need to stop yes meddling in anybody’s elections and be held accountable for their actions Now the years of weak and feckless leadership under Obama are now over No more cargo planes full of cash and as President Trump frequently says a good relationship with Putin and Russia when you’re not trying to bribe them it is very positive thing for the country However under President Trump any hostile or aggressive action by Putin’s regime will be and should be met with strength not appeasement not bribery not cash not kissing the rings of dictators And while the mainstream media and left as they peddle their conspiracy theories well the administration is now putting forth some truth and some precedent and some facts And by the way Reagan proved it to all of us Peace through strength works Diplomacy is important Trust but verify Sean Hannity

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Compared to previous weeks the last week July 23- 29 was subdued all in all That didn’t mean there was not a whole lot of unnecessary confusion alternate facts and general incompetence After all Donald Trump is still the president

AP reporter John Lemire placed Trump in an impossible position Noting that Putin denied meddling in the 2016 elections and the intelligence community insists that Russia meddled he asked Trump “Who do you believe” If Trump had said that he believed his intelligence community and gave no credence to Putin’s denial he would have humiliated Putin and destroyed any prospect of cooperative relationsTrump tried to strike a balance He spoke respectfully of both Putin’s denials and the US intelligence community’s accusation It wasn’t a particularly coherent position It was a clumsy attempt to preserve the agreements he and Putin reached during their meeting And it was blindingly obviously not treason In fact Trump’s response to Lemire and his overall conduct at the press conference did not convey weakness at all Certainly he was far more assertive of US interests than Obama was in his dealings with Russia In Obama’s first summit with Putin in July 2009 Obama sat meekly as Putin delivered an hour-long lecture about how US-Russian relations had gone down the drain As Daniel Greenfield noted at Frontpage magazine Tuesday in succeeding years Obama capitulated to Putin on anti-missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic on Ukraine Georgia and Crimea Obama gave Putin free rein in Syria and supported Russia’s alliance with Iran on its nuclear program and its efforts to save the Assad regime He permitted Russian entities linked to the Kremlin to purchase a quarter of American uranium And of course Obama made no effort to end Russian meddling in the 2016 elections Trump in contrast has stiffened US sanctions against Russian entities He has withdrawn from Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran He has agreed to sell Patriot missiles to Poland And he has placed tariffs on Russian exports to the US So if Trump is Putin’s agent what was Obama … The Democrats and their allies in the media use the accusation that Trump is an agent of Russia as an elections strategy Midterm elections are consistently marked with low voter turnout So both parties devote most of their energies to rallying their base and motivating their most committed members to vote … But … the problem with playing domestic politics on the international scene is that doing so has real consequences for international security and for US national interests… for instance … Europe is economically dependent on trade with the US and strategically dependent on NATO So why are the Europeans so open about their hatred of Trump and their rejection of his trade policies his policy towards Iran and his insistence that they pay their fair share for their own defense … The answer of course is that they got a green light to adopt openly anti-American policies from the forces in the US that have devoted their energies since Trump’s election nearly two years ago to delegitimizing his victory and his presidency Those calling Trump a traitor empowered the Europeans to defy the US on every issue Trump’s opponents’ unsubstantiated allegation that his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 elections has constrained Trump’s ability to perform his duties… Time will tell if we just averted war But what we did learn is that Israel’s position in a war with Iran is stronger than it could have been if the two leaders hadn’t met in Helsinki … Trump’s opponents’ obsession with bringing him down has caused great harm to his presidency and to America’s position worldwide It is a testament to Trump’s commitment to the US and its allies that he met with Putin this week And the success of their meeting is something that all who care about global security and preventing a devastating war in the Middle East should be grateful for Caroline Glick

Donald Trump has a big promise for the US economy: 4 growth No chance say 11 economists surveyed by CNNMoney And a paper published Tuesday by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco backs them up … The Republican presidential nominee made the promise in a speech in New York in September « I believe it’s time to establish a national goal of reaching 4 economic growth » he said Since the Great Recession growth has averaged 2 Brusca and the other economists surveyed say that 4 growth is impossible or at least highly unlikely The reasons: Unemployment is already really low lots of Baby Boomers are retiring and there are far fewer manufacturing jobs today than in past decades Trump’s team says it will get to 4 growth with tax cuts better trade deals and more manufacturing jobs One reason for slower growth is lower productivity — for example how many widgets an assembly line worker can produce in an hour Another problem is that the example of the assembly line worker is increasingly outdated: America has shed about 56 million manufacturing jobs since 2000 mostly because of innovation and partly because of trade studies show Manufacturing jobs tend to have higher productivity — and wages — than jobs in other service industries like retail education and health care which have added lots of low-productivity jobs while manufacturing jobs have disappeared Interestingly American manufacturers are producing more than ever before — in dollar terms But as technology replaces jobs on the assembly line more goods can be produced with fewer workers On top of that the economy is already near what economists consider full employment meaning the unemployment rate can’t go much lower The unemployment rate is 5 and was as low as 47 earlier this year It can’t go much lower because there will always be people leaving jobs or searching for them If the job market is already near capacity the economy can’t expand much more economists say Unemployment did go really low in 2000 — as low as 38 — and the economy was growing above a 4 pace But the San Francisco Fed attributes those good times to the late 1990s internet revolution … Many economists call for more spending on building new roads bridges and highways as do both Trump and Hillary Clinton … Many experts say comprehensive immigration reform — a path to citizenship — would create more documented workers Historically documented workers tend to have higher productivity than undocumented workers because they generally have higher job skills and can take on jobs that produce more valuable goods Productivity has nothing to do with work ethic CNN 12102018

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Donald Trump Just Endorsed ‘Spectacular’ ‘African American Leader’ John James To Represent Michigan In US Senate